Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

I go down the street, people see me: ‚Hey, I pity-‚ right on, man, that’s a compliment to me.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

Everybody likes a compliment.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Compliment three people every day.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.